Wolfgang K. Meyer-Hayoz

Wolfgang K. Meyer-Hayoz (* 1947 ) is a German industrial designer and managing director of the Meyer-Hayoz Design Engineering Group, which he founded .

education

Wolfgang K. Meyer-Hayoz graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with a degree in mechanical engineering , visual communication and industrial design . Professors Klaus Lehmann, Kurt Weidemann and Max Bense were formative for his current design philosophy .

Meyer-Hayoz Design Engineering Group

In 1985, Wolfgang K. Meyer-Hayoz founded the Meyer-Hayoz Design Engineering Group with offices in Winterthur , Switzerland , and Konstanz , Germany . The company advises start-ups, small and medium-sized companies as well as world market leaders in the areas of design strategy, industrial design, user interface design, temporary architecture and communication design and has already received numerous international awards. Meyer-Hayoz Design Engineering Group's customers include A. the Gallus Group , VITA Zahnfabrik , B. Braun Melsungen or Ferag AG. The company focuses on the areas of medical design , the design of capital goods and develops comprehensive corporate design concepts.

Activities in associations and juries

From 1987 to 1993 Wolfgang K. Meyer-Hayoz was President of the Swiss Design Association (SDA); he is a member of the Association of German Industrial Designers (VDID) and the Swiss Management Society (SMG) . He is co-founder of Swiss Marketing (Erfagruppe Winterthur). In addition to his work as a designer and consultant, Wolfgang K. Meyer-Hayoz is a guest lecturer at the University of St. Gallen and has been a juror on international design committees (e.g. Red Dot Design Award) for many years. In addition to working on complex design processes in medical technology as well as machine and device design, he also moderates change management and turnaround projects in the field of design strategy and is involved in leadership culture, e.g. B. at Willauer + Partner, Institute for Leadership Culture as a co-founder and active partner.

Awards and prizes (extract)

• red dot and red dot: best of the best, Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia
• iF product design award (including silver) and iF design award china (including gold), iF International Forum Design
• Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2004 (nomination), Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
• German Design Award 2012 (4 × nominations), German Design Council
• Design Prize Switzerland (nomination), D'S Design Center
• Focus Open in silver, Design Center Stuttgart
• Good Design, Chicago Athenaeum
• Design Sense, Design Center London
• China Product Innovation Design Award (Gold), CIDF
• Inclusion in the permanent collection of the museum Die Neue Sammlung Munich
• Inclusion in the collection of the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design

Web links

• Meyer-Hayoz Design Engineering Group website: http://www.meyer-hayoz.com/
• Interview with Wolfgang K. Meyer-Hayoz on zwomp.de: http://www.zwomp.de/2011/12/21/3-½-fragen-meyer-hayoz
• Article in the business magazine Bodensee, page 48ff: http://www.wirtschaftsmagazin.com/tl_files/magazine/wima_bodensee/pdfs/WIMA_2013-Gesamt.pdf?page=48
• Portrait / interview in Industrieanzeiger or Indukom: http://www.industrieanzeiger.de/produktion/-/article/12503/34873880/Analytisch,-kreativ-und-markenorientiert/art_co_INSTANCE_0000/maximized/
• AGD member profile: http://www.agd.de/lösungenportrait.html?&tx_agdaddon_pi1%5Bträger%5D=06202
• Profile at designer-profile.com: http://www.designer-profile.com/profiles/240-meyer-hayoz-design-engineering

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss Design Association website: http://swiss-design-association.ch/
2. ↑ VDID member profile: http://www.vdid.de/designer/portrait.php?d=261
3. ↑ Red Dot Jury 2011: http://de.red-dot.org/4343.html
4. ↑ Red Dot Jury 2012: http://red-dot.de/pd/jury-2012/
5. ↑ Red Dot jury member Wolfgang K. Meyer-Hayoz 2013: http://red-dot.de/pd/jury/jury-2013-wolfgang-k-meyer-hayoz/?lang=de
6. ↑ Portrait at Willauer + Partner, Institute for Leadership Cults: Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Red Dot Design Yearbook 2009/2010, Vol. 2, editor: Peter Zec , publisher: reddot edition, ISBN 978-3-89939-108-4 , pages 178, 204, 205 and 222
8. ^ Design Innovations 2004, publisher: Peter Zec , publisher: reddot edition, ISBN 3-89939-068-7 , page 338
9. ↑ Meyer-Hayoz Design Engineering Group online exhibition at iF Design: http://exhibition.ifdesign.de/winner_de.html?ma_id=11921
10. ^ IF design award china yearbook 2010, publisher: iF International Forum Design GmbH Hannover, ISBN 978-986856391-9 , page 149
11. ^ Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany 2004, publisher: German Design Council, publisher: Birkhäuser, ISBN 3-7643-7179-X , page 174
12. ↑ Design Prize Switzerland 2003 with VITA VM Packaging: http://www.designpreis.ch/?pageID=234&lng=de ; Catalog of the Design Preis Schweiz, publisher: Design Center Schweiz, Langenthal, ISBN 3-9070-1267-4 , page 124f
13. ↑ Design Prize Switzerland 2001 (recognition) with Ferag Combo Drum and Combi Server: Catalog of the Design Prize Switzerland, supplement to Hochparterre edition 11/2001, publisher: Hochparterre, exhibition street 25, CH-8005 Zurich, page 31
14. ↑ Design Center Stuttgart, Focus Open in Silver 2010 (2x): Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Good Design Chicago, 2001 winner in the Medical category: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
16. ↑ Good Design Chicago, 2003 winner in the Industrial Equipment category: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ design sense 2000, publisher: Designmuseum London, ISBN 1-872005-30-6 , page 15